> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2005 9:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] command line woes
> 
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:32 pm, Hugh Dixon tapped out:
> 
> > or use midnight commander, (command - mc) which includes an edit 
> > function Hugh
> 
> Ok. There are several things wrong with this picture and let 
> me point them out to you and the rest of the silly folks here.
> 
> 1.) You're in a console, so console it be. Nothing 
> fancy-dancy and dressed up and graphical. Has to be CONSOLE 
> and TEXT ONLY (no ASCII lines or ANYTHING)
> 

If I'm forced to a console, it cos I've borked my Xserver.
For me 'mc' is X-lite!

> 2.) Folks in the Outback shouldn't even KNOW about mc
> 

Outback? From someone in Illawarra?  My place even has reticulated
sewerage!

> 3.) It's late in the evening. Hugh, you're supposed to be at 
> the pub shouting schooners to yer mates and NOT playing on 
> the computer with mc, let alone near a computer in the first 
> place after the first schooner.

Schooners - Phut.  Them is a NSW thing. Don't have schooners in
respectable parts of the country :)

> 
> 4.) You're an Aussie. Why use mc when you can use, say, a maddock?
> 
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